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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

The magnificent building Will, of course
not be thrown open to the public, filled
from cellar to attic with costly volumes
but year by year, as the income accumu'
lates, the number will be added to, until by
1890, Ottawa will have an institution which
no city of her size In the world can boast
OF.
The amount realized for the fund Will
aggregate about 100000, the major portion
of which will be invested in order TO make
the library self.supporting. This Is mani
testify the only policy, as the fund would
soon disappear, were not such an action
taken.
The same rules and regulations which
governed the Young Ladies' Library Asso
citation, are still In force, and are likely to
remain so for some time
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

At the New York Board of Trade meet.
ing on Wednesday, resolutions were adopt.
ed calling upon the national board of trade
to carefully consider the following quesss
tons:
That the business men of all parties,
both protectionists and free traders, should
unite In demanding early action by congress
to reduce the present enormous revenues
In a way to least embarrass existing indus
tries
9 While desirable to reduce international
taxes, 1t was not desirable to abolish the in
ternal.revenue system as a whole.
3 That the government should give sub.
sides to American steamship lines.
That every Legitimate means TO foster
the merchant marine should be used, in
Guiding the inactment of the law now pend
ing In congress known as the tonnage bill,
alike to sail and steam vessels engaged In
foreign commerce.
5 The necessity of a judicious national
anti.adulteratlon law.
6 That the internal revenue tax upon
alcohol used in the arts and manufactures
should be abolished.
Z The adoption of postal telegraph
system, aud to urge Its consideration upon
congress.
S The consideration of the subject of
commercial union with Canada.
8 The question of refunding sufficient
portion of the national debt to constitute
an adequate basis and security for per.
manent national currency under the present
national banking system.
10 That the amendment proposed to the
constitution of the United States to allow
the president to veto separate items in all
annual appropriation bill should be adopt
ed
II That congress should be urged to
enact bankrupt law embOdying the gen.
eral principles of the Lowell bill,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
From w altman.

WALTuAM, Dec. t5.--A chocolate supper
IN the Presbyterian church Monday even
ing, Dec. 26, Further particulars next
week
An epidemic in the form of cold Is
prevalent among us.
George Tell shipped cattle on Monday
night.
William Wylle Jr was doing Ottawa the
first part Of the week.
w. X. Warrick Is enjoying the quiet still.
ness of bachelors hall, as his wife is visit
ing her mother, of Mendoza.
Miss Emma Delagneau, one OF our corps
of teachers, Sundayed al her home in North
Ottawa.
Miss Maggie Moore, who has been suf-
fering with erysipelas for nearly two weeks,
Is recovering slowly.
Miss Mary Gilligan, a teacher of Airing.
ton, is enjoying few days at home here,
Supervisor Wylie is attending the county
Legislature this week,
Our genial blacksmith, James McCon.
nell, has been blessed by another heir In
his family. The biblical record will refer
TO this event as having occurred Dec. 18th,
1887.
While In Utica las. Saturday, we met
the FREE TRADERS energetic agent, who,
by the way, was meeting with grand sue
cess In soliciting names for your paper.
School report for district No for the
past month Is as follows: Average attend.
ance, twenty-five. Perfect i'm attendance,
Celia, Teresa, Eddie and Nellie Gilligan,
Thomas, Maggie and Mamie johnson and
George and John Osborne. L. ANpI.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
From MarseilleS.

MARsEnLEs, Dec. 15-L. w. Smith,
who has been sojourning In Mexico In the
interest OF the Marseilles Mfg. Co., re.
turned last Tuesday. He has been away
since April. He says the Mexicans have
been very much misrepresented. He said
any one could go day or night anywhere
In the City Of Mexico without fear of mo-
lestation. The officials anu citizens are
uniformly kind and obliging, and lawless.
ness was kept rs we'll under as any place
he was ever In.
The death of Milton Peister on Friday
night was very unexpected indeed. The
cause of death was pronounced to be gall
stones. Mr.. Peister's place will not soon
be filed In the community. He was I'm.
tlinching In what he considered right, and
freely gave OF his means for the advance.
ment of all the causes that raise up human
ity. The business of Wilson 81 Peister
will still continue at the old place.
The masq Jerade this evening promises
something, although the weather Is not
very desirable.
Last evening Miss Mead an elocutionist,
delighted large number Of the friends of
the East Marseilles school, who gathered
at the rink TO hear hear her. The occasion
was III u DtutIll W Tue last MAI StllltS
school. There was singing by members of
the school, who had been under the must
cal instruction of Miss Mary Montgomery,
and which was very we'll done-sO well
that the audience called back one chorus
by enchore.
On Wednesday evening next Dec. 2lst,
j. M. Boomer State Master Workman of
Ohio, will address the people of Marseilles
and vicinity on the principles and objects
Of the great order of knight Of Labor
The address will be given in Washington
Hall, and Is under the auspices of Eureka
Assembly, No. 9,2S2 knight of Labor, of
Marseilles. The lecture is free.
d. III. Slagle put in an appearance last
sunday.
DR.. J. Montgomery returned last Sunday
from Ohio, where he has been visiting
frinds.
The shody mill has again started the
difference between Mr. Hawks and Mr..
Farris being settled.
The oat meal and flour mills are still
progressing finely, hoping to get out some
of their product some time in January.
The tlial TO-DAY of Louie SCHNEIDER for
assaultirg g. X. Bingham, some days ago,
resulted in binding SCHNEIDER over to the
Grand Jury in 5000. The case was tried
before o. b. Grant, a change of venue hav.
ing been taken from Esq. Ward.
Capt. F. A. MunsOn and wife are visiting
II. K. Adams and family. Mrs. Munson is
a sister of Mrs. Adams. She was formerly
Miss Jennie Woodland Capt. Munson was
postmaster at Sandwich, ILL.,, for II years,
and is now postmaster in Dakota town.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

Within the last few weeks the trustees
of the Reddick Library have been placed
In position to command financial means
suilicien. 10 establish the nucleus Of VIII.
liam Reddiyk's dream, the founding Of Il
great library for the benefit Of the rich and
the poor, the young and the old Of Ottawa.
The public have bsen camoring for ac.
ton on the part Of the trustees for the past
year or more, presumably with the idea
that these gentlemen have had the control
of the whole vast sum with which the
institution has been endowed but In justice
to these gentlemen 1t Is no less than fair
to state that until about three weeks ago,
the trustees have not held one dollar of
the funds, as they have up to that time,
been under the control OF the executor OF
the estate, Hon. Washington Armstrong,
who has been hampered in the delivery Of
the money and deeds by the suit in the
circuit court, and by the necessary process
Of law in settling with legatees.
But during this time the trustees have
not been idle. Far from It; for they have
held numberless conferences necessary for
the formulation of the plans to be pursued
In the future, and the best means of salts
flying the public tastes in the present II
has been found advisable, taking into con
sideration the fact that the public fancy
has degenerated into love for light and
Improbable reading, not to place $50 900
or $4,000 worth of literature upon the
shelves of the edifice at once, but TO supply
books as the public demand tor good and
wholesome reading increases
To this end the gentlemen have decided
TO purchase $500 or 5000 volumes of
world famed authors In history, science,
biography and literature, and are now ne
gotiating with Eastern and Chicago book
publishing houses of national standing, for
the consignment. Meanwhile shelves and
cases are being made ready TO accommo-
date the increase Of space demanded, and
the rooms now in use will be slightly
crowded.
With the library generously donated by
the Young Ladies' Library Association.
amounting to over 1000 volumes, the "a
dick institution will be stocked W AZ
volumes at the least figure be- -
die of the coming month, VIII. A.
lovers OF good literature an eleg.
which to take initiatory morsels >A5the
fruit of the forbidden tree
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
Memorial,

The following was adopted at the meet
ing of La Sale County Pomona Grange
No 81, p. of H., held in Ottawa, Dec. LIST
WHEREAS, La Sale County Pomona
Grange, No. 81, is once more called upon to
mourn the loss of brother-Bro. A. d.
Buttertield, like shock of corn fully ripe
passed from this to the higher life Sept
10Th, 1887, aged IS years-therefore
Resolped, That in the death of Bro A. d.
Butterfield, our order has lost one of its
most earnest and devoted members, whose
daily life exhibited the noble precepts of
benevolence and love ipculcated in our
order.
Resolped, That while our brother has
passed from labor to rest we will ever
strive to emulate his many virtues and
gratefully keep his memory green.
f. ROWLAND,
FREEMAN WHEELER,
ID. T.. BARNES,
ComMittee
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

In The Offices.
MARRIAGE LICENsEs
Henry Lamp and Minnie Heidenre ich
Ottawa.
Chas Hansen and Christina Aufins, Nor
way.
Henry KNIGHT and Maggie Simmons La
Sale.
Allen N Marten and Ella Winans, Grove.
land
Arthur Knox and Cora Nusbaun, Streat.
Emil Yost and Kate kraemer, Mendoza.
David W Clement and Eliza A Heslet,
Earlyile,
j y Thomas ami Mary y Morgan, York.
town, Berean co.
Henry l. Hendrickson and Martina BRAY.
ick, Mission,
Joseph Ieetz aud Carrie Fernmore, Otta.
wa.
James Heron Eckles and Fannie Lisette
Reed, Ottawa.
Alvah NewEurn and Adeline White,
Streator.
John Erickson and Ida Munson, Senec a
Elmer COnklin and Catherine Bowker
StreatOr.
Ole Lee and Susan Benson, Streator.
Thomas Brownslow and Mary Gordan,
StreatOr.
William Grant and Margaret Punchen,
Streator,
Geo Barr and Fannie NJ Williamson,
Lostant.
Albert MedeDrath and Albertina Maron,
Brooktield.
Harry Il Leonard, Milwaukee and Flor.
ence Amede, Streator.
Henry Wieking and Emile Rohrfng,
Grand Rapids.
Goodman Jacobs, DeKalb Co., and Julia
Farney, Leland,
Daniel Gallagher, Lee Co, and Katie
Hughes. Ophir.
Patrick Rogers and Mary Mulroy, Strea.
tor.
Lewis Hamel and Charlotte Wallace
Troy Grove.
George II. Eichelberger and Adelne
Roberts, City.
Frank Breuneman, of Putnam Co. and
Elizabeth Mayer, La Sale.
John Provan end Christina Middleton,
Streator
RECORDERS OFFICE.
Sixty three instruments were filed dur.
ing the past week from Streator, from
Ottawa and 10 from La Sale, Thirty three
of these were deeds and the remainder
mortgages and releases of mortgages.
Amount of deeds. ........ $4,000
mortgages. ........ 1000
Deeds over mortgages. ........ $4,000
Percent Of deeds. ...,...,.......1
mortgages. ..,.........,22
----
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

Americans are breaking down under high
pressure application to business and duties
at the desk; they are losing nerve force
DR.. Jones' Red Clover Tonic restores lost
nerve force by supplying food for the nerve
tissues, and by its gentle operative action re-
moves all restraint from the secretive organs,
hence, curing all diseases of the stomach,
liver and kidneys Il. Y. Griggs will supply
the genuine Red Clover Tonic at so cents a
bottle.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

People ask what is good tor cough or n
cold, the mistake many make is in letting it
run too long. DR.. Bigelow's Cough Cure,
contains the good qualities of NIL the best
cough remedies without the defects of any
of them. A safe and speedy remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat and lung troub.
les. Sold by Il. Y, Griggs in so cent and 81
bottles. Healing to the lungs. Safe and
pleasant for children.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

j. C. Burrows, Kalamazoo, Michigan
testihes: "For more than five years, a mem
Der of my family has been afflicted with
Hay Fever, eliminating late in the fall in
a hacking cough. Every remedy proved
futile. Not half dozen bottles of Papil-
lon (extract CT flax Catarrh Cure had been
used before the cough entirely disappeared,
and general relief followed. 1t is simply
wonderful" Large bottles only 81, for
sale by II. E. Gapen d Co.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

The best on eartn can truly be said Of
Griggs Glycerine Salve, which is a sure,
safe and speedy cure for cuts, bruises, scalds,
burns, wounds and all other sores. Will pos
lively cure piles, letter and all skin erup-
tions. Try this wonder healer. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. Only 25
cents. Sold by L. Y. Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

Mr.. B. f. Nourse, general western agent
Royal Baking Powder Co., writes: have
never found so great results from physici
clans Prescriptions and attendance upon our
children, as have after few days use of
Papillon (extract of flax Skin Cure. |
cannot describe to you medically what il
has done for US, but can say that years of
treatment have not accomplished what Pa.
pillon has done after few applications
Large bottles only ST., at T. f. Gapen &
Co.'S drug store.
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Vicinity Items.

gone up and still the hustle of the hustle
marcheth on.
A farmer from Dana went up to Chicago
the other day, and upon retiring, blew out
the gas He was taken home the next day
and buried In the village cemetary. His
fate should be warning TO all gas blowing
Idiots.
The barb wire men OF Joliet and else.
where, will combine against the patentee,
and contest the validity of the patent be
cause moonshine wire factories are allowed
TO run without being prosecuted.
A new hose company, the Spring Valley
Volunteer Hose ca. No. l, was organized
In the busy little city of Spring Valley on
a recent Sunday afternoon. The town also
has ferry boat.
Charlie Klinefelter, son Of wealthy
manufacturer Of wire at Joliet, has been
held In bonds of 81, 900 for rohbing trunks
while In the employ of the Milwaukee &
st. Paul Il. X.
The church Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, at Spring Valley, was dedicated amid
appropriate cerem Onies on the Sth inst. 1t
is very fine edice.
The Santa Fe bridge across the Illinois
river has been completed. 1t is of iron
and 700 feet long.
The water In the public watering troughs
of StreatOr has been turned off to prevent
the spread of glanders which horrible
equine disease has made its appearance
in that city.
5000 acres of land near Kankakee has
been leased by natural gas prospectors.
John Reeves, a IA year-old boy of La
Sale, tell and broke his arm on Wednes.
day.
Nearly year ago, Gerhard Felloche,
German farm hand of StreatOr, was knock.
ed down and robbed of watch in one of
her festive thOrOughfares. One of his as
sailants, James Wyen, was apprehended
few weeks ago, and now lies In jail, and the
other young man was caught last week in
Spring Valley.
Will Hottlnger and Harry Catin, late of
this city, are prospecting at WenOna. Harry
Is the chief engineer of barber shop
while VIII is head cook of his own cigar
store. We wish them luck.
John Katns saloon at Streator was burg
larized of pool balls, liquors and cigars on
Saturday night. The Clew to the thieves
has been discovered.
The business mems association OF La
Salle held meeting last week 20 consider
further the water works plan. The city en-
gineer presented plan to cost $120,S00,
which would distribute water in every
street and alley in La Sale with flow of
400, 600 gallons per day.
Anton Rossak of La Sale was fined $50
and costs for brutal assault on a Polander
Of that place.
La Sale camp S. V. of Streator have
elected Capt, A. tIors, 1st Lieut., Ed.
Zacher, 2nd Lieut.; Chas. Pope, Camp
Council Noonan, A. Walther. It's a good
executive management.
Articles Of incorporation have been filed
for the Chicago, IIinsdale and Southern r.
r. Co. II is To have branch road to Strea-
tor
Our Brown Is out of Gangar, and Nick
Cummings can now go back to Mendoza
Henceforth they will have no rivals, for
the Mendoza natural gas wells are things of
the dim and visionary past. They are in
fact done for and the flow is decreasing
every week.
Several Of the Fly" boys of Streator have
been fined for disturbing the meetings of
the Pentacost band.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

by The statement is so often made by our
N, iocal contemporaries (who but repeat the
aNl1le from their metropolitan eXchanges)
n sXE Nigh protection" means cheap y"
~ mat we are constrained TO ask some
y EN- to overhaul their files, and re.read
1he letters of Bystander," published dur
re Ing the summer in this paper, and then tell
US just how, when and where protection 4"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
County Gossip.


Utica has whole host of nice girls, and
and some of them are not unknown In o.
tawa society. The Utica girl delights In
mask ball, and usually wears domino on
such occasions. This costume Is assumed
In order TO be able to firt with the boys
without the latter discovering the pretty
wearer After one of those mask balls, the
last one, we think, onelot the incest girls IN
Utica asked Il popular young man to play
dominoes, but he declined.
Don't you like dominoes'" was her
rather puzzled query.
"Yes, | like the game very much at the
mask ball when there's pretty girl inside
Seneca jim Smith and the Rock Island
station agent met accidentally the other
day.
ave got conundrum for you" said
Smith.
"But must hurry up and get out my
monthly report"
await minute. What Is the difference
between an applicant for pass and New
York drummer"
"Oh, don't know"
"One gabs for a gift and the other has a
gift of CAB"
A stilled moan swept through the restless
streets and aroused Marshal Maher from
moment Of reflection; the echo of the ex.
press wagon sounded harshly over the
cobblestones, and the coroner that register.
ed zone suicide" never new what an Unjust
ice he had done.
One of the boons to the traveller Is the
excellent hotels. A commercial tourist
stopped at one of the hostelries the other
day, in Streator, carefully hung his coat
upon nail, removed his hat and rubbers
and wendell his way into the dining room.
"Superlish 2" howled the walter
"Soup"
The tourist had taken several spoonfuls
of II, when something iloated TO the surface
"Hey waiter! There's dead cockroach
In this soup"
"Lord save us Hezekiah, he's got the
cockroach," and there was a sOnnd as Of n
pair of pants ripping In the atmosphere,
and the cockroach and tourist were separ-
ated. streator always buries her own dead
-
1t was on the eighth day of December,
and the weather was of such nature as to
preclude exhuberant joy. II was sad,
dreamy day, especially In the afternoon.
The atmosphere around the court house
suggested umbrellas and rubbers and no
man would go forth except were 1t to dine
The county superintendent room was &C.
cupied, but how was the small boy who
turned the key to know II. A thick SET
bushy. haired individual with a clay pipe,
arises from deep slumber and tries the
door. He places table to the door and
the bushy hair scares a telegraph messen.
ger boy into activity.
unlock the door," demands he of the
bushy hair.
Boy with leer), "You're In there for
ninety days."
He of the b. H." Well, I'm getting
81 80 per day, any way"
There is n sound as of burs Ing the but.
tons off "A vest, and amid cloud of dust the
hair and the small boy disappear.
Presently the jantor arrives and uDlocks
door he had locked thinking the room
empty and the boodler hunting" Doc
Moron energies from cloud of tobacco
smoke
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
Stockholders MEETING.

Public notice is hereby given that there will be a
meeting of the Stockholders of The First National
Bank of Ottawa. His their banking house. In Otta
wa, on the second Tuesday in The month OF January
next between the hours of two o'clock p NJ and three
O'Clock NJ Of said day, for the purpose OF electng
seven directors for the ensuing year.
J. T. NASH. Cashier.
December 5. 1887. decl9-5w
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The Courts.
Circuit Court


Susie Bakalar, the bigamous spouse Of
John Kovonei, has been sentenced to one
year In the penitentiary at Joliet, and now
rests behind its bars. Upon being asked
whether or not she had anything TO say
why sentence should not be passed upon
her, her attorney alleged that she was In a
delicate condition Of some duration, but as
no proofs were advanced, she was sentenced
Just the same. If, however, the allegations
prove true. she will doubtless be pardoned,
The states attorney made amotion In the
case of Withholding public money against
VIM, X, Mllligan, to make an order upon
Milligan TO deliver an alleged parcel Of
books, but the defendant objected and the
motion was taken under AMUSEMENT.
Law.-James w MADDEN Matilda, eject
ment, vedict for plaintiff for possession OF
lots and 2 In block 81 states add 10 Otta
wa. Constant MesseDie Eugene PerrOt,
judg for plT, $50. Jas Donagh, def de
iaulted. John o johnson Glen . John
son, verdict for plH 81 ,2G809. Joel Carter
IIeman II Carter, judg for plff, 81 ,2S7 A.
Sophia Smith Harriet Simpson, judg for
deit So 20.
VIM. r. Milligan V county of La Sale.
The note on which this suit Is entered was
declared void and illegal as 1t was issued
without authority Of law, but the plaintiff
was given leave to amend the narration.
Catharine Stout Sallie A Nicholson,
ejectment, verdict for plif, A j FiSke
Jacob W Brown, judg for PHI, $3.50. John
Walker Frank Whiting ct al, judg for
plf, 5000 Henry Cox Geo Blanchard,
judg for pliT, $l,275.
County Court.
Kneussel Weidknecht jung by conf v
deft $G,3330 Mahoney v Wolf, judg by
conf deit, $500. Albrecht Y Weidknecht,
judg by conf def $6lS76.
probate Court.
Harrington Estate of Blackman, judg
for pllf, $04i. Estate David II Roath, rept
Of pub sale approved. Guardianship of
Albert Barnes, same.
Richard Wolfe was appointed admins.
traitor of the estate of Patrick Hayes on
Monday.
Lester H. Strawn has been authorized 10
make loan of money to his word, Lewis
Q. Willard.
The estate of George Varel has been set
tied.
Philip J. Salisburg's estate has been set
led.
Jos Hettel v estate John Cleare, judg for
off, 500 81, Estate OF NJ McGrath, Simon
Ryon, adm order for final set.
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County Court.
Kneussel Weidknecht, JUG by conf '
deft $G,3330 Mahoney Wolf, judg by
conf deft, $500. Albrecht Y Weidknecht
judg by conf def $6lS76.
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JESSE II. RUGRR. n. KILBURN.
- Ugh * SI1IBURN, Attorneys COun
IL seiors at Law; also Notary Public Office In Fat
terer Metzger's Block east Of Court House. febi&
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

+ w. BREWER, Attorney and Counselor a,
IL. Law and Notary Public. Rooms s. e. ~, Opera
House Block, Ottawa, Ill.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

~ w. w. BLA * r., Attorney and Counselor
VI. AT Law. Room IL, Opera House Block, Ottawa,
Ill. All legal business promptly attended TO. janSl
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X. F.BULL. LISTER II. sTKAwN. s. w. RUGBR.
DULL, STRA N 81 RUGEK, After.
ID neys and Counsellors at Law. Office over City
Drug Store Of La sale and Madison streets OF
tawa III. jsn26,8
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

7 ORR .NZO LILA ID, Attorney and Coun'
- sclOr at Law. Office in PostOtite Block. Ottawa,
Illinois. marj'S1